Quotes from Khaled Hosseini

Infilai la foto dove l'avevo trovata. Mi resi conto che quei pensieri non mi avevano ferito. Chiudendo la porta della stanza mi chiesi se quello fosse il modo in cui sboccia il perdono, non con le fanfare di una epifania, ma con il dolore che, nel cuore della notte, fa i bagagli e si allontana senza nemmeno avvisare.

um zu schreien, musst du atmen.

Untukmu keseribu kalinya - Hassan si pengejar layang-layang berbibir sumbing

There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

Ke mana pun aku berpaling, aku melihat tanda-tanda kesetiaannya, kesetiaan tanpa syarat keparatnya.

It is the creators of the harami (bastards) who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born.

Laila was shocked at how easily she'd come unhinged, but, the truth was, part of her had liked it, had liked how it felt to scream at Mariam, to curse her, to have a target at which to focus all her simmering anger, her grief.

clipped account of a mannered life, a life rich with achievement, grace, respect.

Hadn't we both yearned for escape, reinvention, new identities? Hadn't we each, in the end, unmoored ourselves by cutting loose the anchors that weighed us down?

Hanya ada satu macam dosa, hanya satu. Yaitu mencuri. Dosa-dosa yang lain adalah variasi dari dosa itu.

A society has no chance of success if it's women are uneducated.

Dijo: «Tengo mucho miedo.» Y yo le pregunté: «¿Por qué?», y ella respondió: «Porque soy profundamente feliz, doctor Rasul. Una felicidad así asusta.» Le pregunté por qué y dijo: «Sólo te permiten ser así de feliz cuando están preparándose para llevarse algo de ti»

He lived in a mansion, but in a shrunken world.

If there's a God out there, then I would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork. Now, hop down. All this talk about sin has made me thirsty again.

Today Baba got a blister when he put his palm down on the hood of our rental car! Mother had to put toothpaste on it.

He lived in a mansion, but in a shrunken world.

She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?

the thing about people who mean everything they say is that they think everyone else does too.

I suspected every bearded man who stared at me to be a Talib killer, sent by Assef. Two things compounded my fears: There are a lot of bearded men in Peshawar, and everybody stares.

She had this laugh. I swear it's why I married her, Laila, for that laugh! It bulldozed you. You stood no chance against it.

I watched Baba's car pull away from the curb, taking with it the person whose first spoken word had been my name.

Kehilangan sesuatu yang kita miliki selalu lebih menyakitkan daripada tidak memiliki sama sekali.

After all, didn't all fathers in their secret hearts harbor a desire to kill their sons?

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything- that's how it is between people who are each other's first memories.